If I buy a bottle of water, the bottle has information on minerals pH contained on the bottle.     I pay a heap for my water rates but getting water test results from the council for tap water proves to be more difficult. 
It would great to see quarterly averaged water test results on water rates bill showing things like Nitrates, chlorides, e-coli, flourides..... I pretty sure these tests are already being done????
This would allow us to make informed decisions on additional filtration where we have safety concerns.

What a colossal cheek the man has - he wants Ukraine to 'undergo a disarmament process to ensure it wasn't a threat to Russia' fgs! Russia attacked Ukraine, not the other way around.

And also Ukraine should be neutral & not apply to join NATO.

I'd like to see his own staff remove Putin from office.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60785754

This is monumental in the world of science...

Quote:The "yes hair theorem" claims to resolve the paradox by bridging the gap between general relativity and quantum mechanics. The notion of quantum hair allows information about what goes into a black hole to come out again without violating any of the important principles of either theory. It is a simple and elegant solution.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60708711

Most of us know of  those who these days, seem to so  enjoy making spiteful little comments online about others, & probably have seen some of the stuff aimed at public figures, much of it in the USA, particularly under former president Trump.

There's quite a lot of it here, too both in online forums & I came across these articles about its effect here recently.


In particular when aimed at the PM, there's often a large dollop of not-even-slightly-concealed misogyny included.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/...2Zv996ER9g

" It's probably not an overstatement to say Ardern is presently one of the most reviled people in Aotearoa New Zealand, attracting vitriol that violates the bounds of normal, reasoned political debate.
During the recent illegal occupation of parliament grounds, the apparent hatred was fully evident. There were ludicrous claims the prime minister is a mass murderer, and demands she be removed from office and executed for "crimes against humanity".

Even on the supposedly professional social networking site LinkedIn, false claims that Ardern is a "tyrant" or "dictator" have been increasingly commonplace. For those making such claims, factual, constitutional, electoral and legal realities seemingly hold no weight.

Rather, it's clear this is rooted in sexist and misogynistic attitudes and beliefs, further amplified by conspiratorial mindsets.

Overall, the sexism and misogyny inherent in these traditionalist beliefs mean Ardern is treated more harshly than a male prime minister pursuing the same policies would be.

Worryingly, the 2021 Gender Attitudes Survey (carried out by the New Zealand National Council of Women) showed such traditional views about leadership and gender are on the rise.
Insults and abuse commonly directed at Ardern on social media reflect the generally gendered nature of cyberviolence, which disproportionately targets women. These insults translate traditionalist beliefs into sexist and misogynistic acts.

Quote:The letter appears to be an order from Andrei Chernenko, RussiaÔÇÖs deputy digital minister, demanding that Russian state-owned websites and online portals beef up their security by Friday this week.

It tells them to move their hosting to Russian services if they are currently using foreign hosting services, and to scrub their web pages of all JavaScript code that has been downloaded from foreign sources; JavaScript is one of the main web programming languages, and the document cites banners and visit counters as examples of the sort of page elements that might need to be removed.

It includes one instruction that particularly raises eyebrows: Russian state-owned web services must by Friday make sure they have switched to domain name system (DNS) servers located on Russian soil. The global DNS is what the internet uses to translate web addresses like ÔÇ£fortune.comÔÇØ into the alphanumerical internet protocol (IP) addresses that computers use to communicate (which, in┬á[i]FortuneÔÇÖ[/i]s case, is ÔÇ£2a02:8109:b6bf:45c0:10:18ff:fe41:4794.ÔÇØ)

https://fortune.com/2022/03/07/russia-ru...ko-letter/

Anyone have ideas about the real reasons for his retirement?

So how long until that 25c a litre is eaten up by increases at the pump?

Effectively all they've done is roll back the calendar by a week or two, but ultimately it's not like that could really do anything really meaningful - someone's got to pay for the roads! Fun fact, fuel is currently 4c a litre in Venezuela.

The half-price public transport is a nice touch though. Not of much use to the gold card-toting oldies, but at least it provides an incentive to go public.

There's an ad I'd love to see rewritten; the kid buying a bar of chocolate for her mum's birthday using buttons. I'd change it so when the kid exits the shop, the mum praises her & says that, if they do 6 more dairies today, then she can flog them off at the market tomorrow.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfMt3HN8tuY




World's funniest ads - the condom ad is hilarious!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSRieuzms24

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics...pp-android

First an admission this weekend by Mahuta that the public don't understand or back the 3 waters proposal and now Ardern say ing they will  "contemplate" a reduction on excise tax on petrol.

Funny how they haven't leaked their own internal polling for a while now.

i appreciate a good fro
it could be said im a fromantic.
this is my nod to some of the great afro's in history.

who remembers when michael jackson was black?
he had decent fro in its early stages




who remember oj simpson before he became a brain addled murderer?




and speaking of murderers phil lecter had a notable afro too



and as white boys go every bodies favourite art teacher bob ross had a fabulous bouffant